The Council is delighted to be presenting Shimmer again this year, bringing specially-commissioned, accessible artworks to Whitley Bay.
Greater opportunities to collect artwork means greater support and demand for these artists, and an overall more transparent and accessible art world.
Milton Keynes is known for its widely accessible public art (with scores of artworks displayed throughout the city) and for its emerging International Festival, during which multi-arts programs are staged in unusual places and public spaces.
Ms. Ono has taken an active role in keeping Lennon's artwork accessible, and to noble ends.
While flipping through pages of the website on his iPad in a friend's gallery in Hoxton Square in London, Mr Philips says he believes in the democratisation of art: "We wanted to make buying and renting artwork accessible to people beyond the wealthy and well-connected".
When asked what would make them more comfortable buying art -- because this is the real goal, to make artwork accessible for everyone -- 36percentt named an "easy, money-back return policy," 30percentt want to better understand the background of the artist, and 25percentt cite a "virtual way to look at the art on their walls". Notice a common thread here?
Since leaving Jolla last fall, Dillon has worked with another crowdfunding campaign — although the Unseen Art project, which was aiming to make famous artworks accessible to blind and partially sighted people as tactile 3D objects that could be downloaded as 3D files and printed via a 3D printer, failed to achieve its $50,000 funding target.
Making your artwork easily accessible and allowing third party users to repurpose it into their own projects, gives your art more reach, spreading through the masses faster.
I wanted to create an online art gallery that would make original one-of-a-kind artwork similarly accessible, and focus on supporting artists whose work may not fit the print model.
With the vision to make all the world's art accessible, our focus naturally turned to making artworks available on the move and at people's fingertips.
Cantell, who is no stranger to the promotional power of tech novelty, having a background in digital advertising, and his own digital products studio, was also involved with a 2015 crowdfunding project to create accessible 3D prints of artworks for blind people.
